Re: [Kiwix-developer] [Wikimediach-l] [KIWIX] 2.1.0 for Chrome & Firefox browsers is out!

[Mossroy <mo...@mo...>]

Hi,

I'm very glad to read that. Thanks for this positive feedback.

Nightly builds are more for testers, as they might be less stable than
final releases.

If you want to distribute the browser extensions offline, it's probably
better to use the released versions, that Emmanuel gathers in
http://download.kiwix.org/bin/browsers/ (these are the same binaries as
ditributed by Mozilla and Google).

Even if they work pretty well with wikipedia ZIMs, you probably noticed
that these browser extensions are slower, not compatible with all ZIM
files, and have less features than the other Kiwix applications. We hope
to improve that in the future. Recently, a few new persons started
contributing on it, so hopefully it will help doing that.


Regards,

Mossroy


Le 17/06/2017 à 00:20, Gabriel Thullen a écrit :
> Hello Emmanuel,
>
> Thanks for keeping us up to date on the new developments.
> I have tried installing the extensions on a few different machines and
> there was no problem at all! I also tried it installing the extensions
> from a flash drive, and it worked every time!
>
> It is great to have nightly builds of the Firefox & Chrome extensions
> available, that way one can slip on a USB flash drive and distribute
> the extensions even if there is no Internet. Real great, and that is
> the whole point of Kiwix: use wikipedia without an Internet connection!
>
> Best regards
> Gabe
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <ke...@ki...
> <mailto:ke...@ki...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     We just have published version 2.1.0 of our browser extensions:
>
>     Here is the changelog:
>     * Add more user info on which ZIM files are compatible
>     * Fix for back/forward buttons in browsing history
>     * Drop some legacy code (Evopedia file format compatibility,
>     uncomplete
>     Cordova/Phonegap port)
>     * Refactoring of the code to make it more easily readable for
>     contributors
>     * Fix for unit tests on Chrome
>     * Enhancements on nightly builds and automatic generation of packages
>     for public releases
>
>     You can download them here:
>     * For Firefox:
>     https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/
>     <https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/>
>     * For Chrome:
>     https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk
>     <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk>
>
>     The development continues, so if you have bug reports - or want to
>     participate to the development - please have a look to
>     https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-html5
>     <https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-html5>.
>
>     Regards
>     Emmanuel
>
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